The Dream circle is a process used in Dragon Dreaming in which an individual dream can become a collective dream. It is important as it changes the energy and builds group commitment. It is only when the dream is allowed to grow from the dream of an individual into a collective dream that creativity can be maximized and collective wisdom can work its magic. The dream of the individual must die in order to be born anew as the dream of the whole group. During the dream circle, each team member … Read more
Celebrating The key to successful sustainable projects
Celebration is about gratitude, thanks giving, recognition and acknowledgement. It is the importance of Celebration that makes Dragon Dreaming different from many other project management tools. Celebration is an important process that reconnects the doing of a project back to the dreaming. It is a way of looking at how the project we are doing gives meaning to our lives. Celebration is where we are being personal. It is strongly suggested 25% of the cost and energy used in all Dragon Dreaming … Read more
Dotmocracy Decision making
Dotmocracy is a simple method for recognizing points of agreement among a large number of people. Participants write down ideas on specially designed paper forms called Dotmocracy sheets and use pens to fill in one dot per sheet, recording their levels of agreement. The result is a graph-like visual representation of the group's collective opinion. Compared to surveys, voting, or typical meeting formats, Dotmocracy provides unique and valuable opportunities. In a Dotmocracy process, every … Read more
What is Dragon Dreaming? Dragon Dreaming definitions
THE SHORTEST DEFINITION Dragon Dreaming – is love in action THE ONE LINE DEFINITION Dragon Dreaming – a way of making 100% of your dreams come true. USED IN WORKSHOPS Dragon Dreaming – a living systems approach to building successful organisations and projects for the Great Turning. CREATED AT A WORKSHOP Dragon Dreaming – an integral design philosophy that takes sustainability into account in every aspect of our lives. AN ENHANCED VERSION FROM WORKSHOPS Dragon Dreaming – a living systems … Read more
Pinakari Deep Listening
Pinakarri is the Martu Mandjilidjara Aboriginal word for Deeper Listening. In our western culture we seem to have lost the skill of empathically listening to each other. We have developed a way of mainly listening to a little voice in the head which keeps making win-lose judgments and interprets everything we hear through itself. This little voice is also very distracting and makes us forget faster: When concentrating on conceptual theory, for instance, we are able to concentrate for … Read more
Climate Mitigation Reducing emissions and stabilizing the climate.
Climate change mitigation involves actions that limit the magnitude and/or rate of long-term climate change. Climate change mitigation generally involves reductions in human (anthropogenic) emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Mitigation may also be achieved by increasing the capacity of carbon sinks, e.g., through reforestation. By contrast, adaptations to climate change are actions taken to manage the eventual (or unavoidable) impacts of global warming, e.g., by building dikes in response to … Read more
Social Entrepreneurship Change makers
Social entrepreneurship is about recognising social problems and achieving social change by employing entrepreneurial principles, processes and operations. It is about investigating and defining a particular social problem and then organizing, creating and managing a social venture to attain the desired change. The change may or may not include a thorough elimination of a social problem. It may be a lifetime process focusing on the improvement of the existing circumstances. While general and … Read more
Zakat Collecting money for the poor or for a development project
Zakat means in Arabic 'that which purifies' and it is basically the giving of a fixed portion of one's wealth as a tax to the administration or government. This is one pillar of Islam. Zakat is a way to redistribute the wealth, thus increasing the flow of cash in the economy with a particular interest in the poor and the dispossessed Muslim. Non Muslims are not required to pay Zakat, but give a tax by a different name called Jizyah tax. The giving of the Zakat is considered a means of … Read more
World Café Consciously tapping into collective capacity
World Café’s invite participants to enter an atmosphere of relaxation and vibrant exchange with others from a variety of backgrounds. We tend to prefer having conversations with those who move in similar circles. Interestingly enough, it is precisely when we invite diversity and engage in multi-stakeholder dialogues that innovative approaches may arise. The setting is organised around café-tables, preferably with white paper tablecloths that may be used for doodling and scribbling down ideas. … Read more
Appreciative Inquiry Igniting the collective imagination of what might be
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) strengthens a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate and heighten positive potential. AI seeks out the best of what is, to help ignite the collective imagination of what might be. Cycle of Appreciative Inquiry: 1. Discovery: identify and appreciate the best of what is 2. Dream: expand potential in grounded ways - generative 3. Design: develop provocative propositions through dialogue 4. Destiny: deliver on the new images of the future, sustain by … Read more
